Author: stopthesethings

We are a group of citizens concerned about the rapid spread of industrial wind power generation installations across Australia.

Sleep – essential for Good Health

**** Sleep is essential for good health.  THE most prevalent adverse health impact from giant industrial wind turbines is noise related sleep deprivation. We've covered the fact that Industrial Noise - is always and everywhere a public health issue. Here's a letter from Dr William Hallstein, a practising psychiatrist for over 40 years, to the … Continue reading Sleep – essential for Good Health

Money ain’t no “cure”

Guest writer, Jackie Rovensky, is renowned on STT for her comments, which stand out for their erudition, composition and unassailable logic. Here's Jackie in response to our favourite tobacco advertising guru who - once again - has elected to step well out of his limited area of "expertise". Jackie pops him neatly back into his … Continue reading Money ain’t no “cure”

Miliband off with the pixies as Brits brace for Winter of Discontent

STT has given quite a bit of coverage on how Britain’s insane rush to install hundreds of giant fans has led to power-price-penury in Ol’ Blighty – see our posts here, here and here. But it seems that energy policy hypocrisy in the UK has a new name – “Ed Miliband”. Ed apparently believes Britain … Continue reading Miliband off with the pixies as Brits brace for Winter of Discontent

Richard Paltridge – one man’s battle

Battling wind weasels, like Acciona, in Court has its own "special" charm - just ask Richard Paltridge. Dick won - his landmark planning case in South Australia, but his opponents - including the rotten little Rann, State Labor Government - pulled every slimy trick in the book along the way. Acciona - the subject of … Continue reading Richard Paltridge – one man’s battle

Hawaii Five-O

Here's the Huffington Post's take on the latest wind weasel shenanigans in Hawaii. STT thinks it sounds like a job for Steve McGarrett and his faithful side-kick, Danny "Danno" Williams. How Renewable Portfolio Standards Can Subvert Your Economy Huffington Post Hawaii Sally Kaye 10 September 2013 A strange thing happened on our way to a … Continue reading Hawaii Five-O

The Corruption of Wind Energy

The Corruption of Wind Energy energytribune Peter C Glover 1 February 2013 We always knew that wind power came with a heavy ‘social levy’. That social levy was the accepted high price that would ‘underpin’ the true initial cost of wind power until the industry ‘matured’. We would suffer its unreliability, its intermittence, its aesthetic … Continue reading The Corruption of Wind Energy

Hell hath no fury like Anne Schafer scorned

**** A few posts back we covered the excellent survey put together by STT Champion, Anne Schafer on the growing public health disaster at AGL's Macarthur wind farm. The turbine noise levels generated not only breach the conditions of AGL's planning consent, but drive the locals nuts night, after sleepless night. Non-compliant wind farms, like … Continue reading Hell hath no fury like Anne Schafer scorned

Coalition Get Set to Scrap the RET

With Tony Abbott's sweep to victory comes the prospect of putting some sense back into Australian energy policy. Here's one of his number - Dennis Jensen - writing in The Australian last Friday. Profitable path to sustainability The Australian Dennis Jensen 27 September, 2013 BJORN Lomborg has stated “if it is not economic, it is … Continue reading Coalition Get Set to Scrap the RET

AGL’s Macarthur victims demand action from their Council

The public health disaster that is AGL's Macarthur wind farm has reached boiling point with 60 of its long-suffering locals calling their local Councilors to account at a heated meeting last Friday - with STT Champion, Annie Gardner leading the charge: Here's one take on proceedings by regional rag, The Standard. Bad vibrations in the … Continue reading AGL’s Macarthur victims demand action from their Council

Sick Again – motion sickness sufferers cop it worst from giant fans

The bi-annual Wind Turbine Noise Conference was held in Denver, in August 2013. The conference is hosted by ICEN: Europe (International Institute of Noise Control Engineering) and looked at 79 research papers about wind turbine noise around the themes of: Low frequency noise and infrasound: Measurements and effects Amplitude modulation Instrumentation Effects of WTN on individuals … Continue reading Sick Again – motion sickness sufferers cop it worst from giant fans